I've been cut off
May 7, 2014, 11:14 am
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So I guess it depends on when ANC's anecdote happened in terms of whether the FA was following company policy or enforcing a personal belief system (or simply didn't get the memo and made an honest error).
ANC's only clue as to the year is that the passengers were "two US soldiers returning from Iraq" which only narrows it down to, well...I guess it doesn't narrow it down very much at all.
ANC's only clue as to the year is that the passengers were "two US soldiers returning from Iraq" which only narrows it down to, well...I guess it doesn't narrow it down very much at all.
This was a fairly recent update.
May 7, 2014, 1:50 pm
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There is one flight attendant on my regular routing home SNA-SEA who gives me disapproving looks after I've had ONE glass of wine in FC. I always have to request refills. She doesn't do it to the guys, though. Given that I am usually flying home on the ~6 pm flight after a long day at the office, I'm rarely in a mood to tolerate that.
Maybe [she] thinks that you're a lightweight and she doesn't want to hold your hair back as you befoul the F loo.
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May 7, 2014, 2:58 pm
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There is one flight attendant on my regular routing home SNA-SEA who gives me disapproving looks after I've had ONE glass of wine in FC. I always have to request refills. She doesn't do it to the guys, though. Given that I am usually flying home on the ~6 pm flight after a long day at the office, I'm rarely in a mood to tolerate that.
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May 7, 2014, 3:21 pm
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) onboard unless you've proven you are unable to behave responsibly. Drinking should not be a gender specific basis for service.
May 7, 2014, 4:47 pm
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So I guess it depends on when ANC's anecdote happened in terms of whether the FA was following company policy or enforcing a personal belief system (or simply didn't get the memo and made an honest error).
ANC's only clue as to the year is that the passengers were "two US soldiers returning from Iraq" which only narrows it down to, well...I guess it doesn't narrow it down very much at all.
ANC's only clue as to the year is that the passengers were "two US soldiers returning from Iraq" which only narrows it down to, well...I guess it doesn't narrow it down very much at all.
May 8, 2014, 10:02 am
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There is one flight attendant on my regular routing home SNA-SEA who gives me disapproving looks after I've had ONE glass of wine in FC. I always have to request refills. She doesn't do it to the guys, though. Given that I am usually flying home on the ~6 pm flight after a long day at the office, I'm rarely in a mood to tolerate that.
May 8, 2014, 10:11 am
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May 8, 2014, 10:22 am
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Never mind the wine drinkers were probably on glass 5 or 6 at a minimum the rate she was refilling them. Nary a question for them on whether they were driving
May 8, 2014, 1:19 pm
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Still, I don't have a problem with it.
May 8, 2014, 1:21 pm
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I might be the idiot in the thread, but I'm ok with Dewars White in the air. I can honestly say it all lacks any specific flavor to me once we're up at altitude. They could be pouring Cluny and I probably wouldn't know until the next day. On the ground is a totally different story, but up in the air it's fine.
What I'd actually really like to have onboard a flight, which I've never seen on a domestic, is Grand Marnier.
What I'd actually really like to have onboard a flight, which I've never seen on a domestic, is Grand Marnier.
May 8, 2014, 2:05 pm
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May 8, 2014, 2:15 pm
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Definitely OT for this thread, but I keep telling my wife that our daughter (2) is going to have some pretty unrealistic travel standards that are going to come crashing in eventually. Kind of like when I finished college, moved to Northern Virginia and realized that I indeed was not going to instantly have a 3000 sq ft house like we did growing up (in a low cost of living area). I live in Maine now, don't have 2/3 of that square footage, but at least I'm not still paying the mortgage on my 400k, 900 sq ft "house"
May 8, 2014, 3:11 pm
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Bars outside of urban areas stay open til 5am in places like Wasilla, Palmer, just outside of Nome.
I have been cutoff on a few flights. I am a nervous flyer so I tend to overdrink while flying. Its a little bit of an annoyance but I understand why the FA's don't want to overserve people.
I have also been denied drinks on early flights. I remember on the old flt 151 ANC-OTZ that departed at 630am I was denied a drink in FC (for some reason it wasn't a combi that day) because it was too early.